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Indian PM cancels trip to CHOGM due to massacre
India's Prime Minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, has cancelled a planned trip to the upcoming Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Australia.
The move follows a massacre of Hindu activists aboard a train.
Officials say India's Foreign Minister, Jaswant Singh, will represent Mr Vajpayee at the CHOGM meeting, which begins on Saturday near the Australian city of Brisbane.
The surprise cancellation came just hours after 55 Hindu activists were massacred in a Muslim-dominated district of the western state of Gujarat while they were returning from the mosque-temple town of Ayodhya.
28/02/2002 09:40:32 | ABC Radio Australia News
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